
Writing the Body Politic
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Beginning with an exploration of O'Neill's work on the construction of the biobody and the ways in which corporeality is sutured into social systems through regimes of power and familial socialisation, the book then moves to concentrate on O'Neill's career-long studies of the productive body and the ways in which the working body is caught in and resists disciplinary systems that seek to rationalise natural functions and control social relations. The third section considers O'Neill's concern with the ancient, early modern, and psychoanalytic sources of the post-modern libidinal body, and a final section on the civic body focuses specifically on the ways in which principles of reciprocity and generosity exceed the capitalist, individualist body of (neo)liberal political theory. The volume also includes an interview with O'Neill addressing many of the key themes of his work, a biographical note with an autobiographical postscript, a select bibliography of O'Neill's many publications, and an extensive introduction by the editors.
A challenging and innovative collection, Writing the Body Politic: A John O'Neill Reader will appeal to critical social theorists and sociologists with interests in the work of one of sociology's great critical readers of classical and contemporary texts.
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Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and author of Reading Marx Writing: Marx, Melodrama, and the 'Grundrisse' (1995), Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber's Calling (2014), and Simmel (2018).
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Part 1: The Bio-Body
1. Foucault's Optics: The (In)vision of Mortality and Modernity
2. The Specular Body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on Infant Self and Other
3. Childhood and Embodiment
4. Infant Theory
Part 2: The Productive Body
5. The Disciplinary Society: From Weber to Foucault
6. Orphic Marxism
7. Televideo Ergo Sum: Some Hypotheses on the Specular Functions of the Media
8. Empire versus Empire: A Post-Communist Manifesto
Part 3: The Libidinal Body
9. Marcuse's Maternal Ethic: Myths of Narcissism and Maternalism in Utopian Critical Memory
10. Structure, Flow and Balance in Montaigne's 'Of Idleness'
11. Mecum Meditari: Descartes Demolishing Doubt, Building a Prayer
12. Psychoanalysis and Sociology: From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism
Part 4: The Civic Body
13. Vico's Arborescence
14. Oh, My Others, There is No Other! Capital Culture, Class, and Hegelian Other-wiseness
15. Ecce Homo: The Political Theology of Good and Evil
16. The Circle and the Line: Kinship, Vanishment, and Globalization Narratives in a Rich/Poor World
Appendix A: Body Politics, Civic Schooling, and Alien-nation: An Interview with John O'Neill
Appendix B: Biographical Notes on John O'Neill, with an Autobiographical Postscript
Appendix C: Selected Works by John O'Neill
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